How about heat it up? If you read up on the technology it is really quite simple in concept once you understand that if you keep the fuel pieces far enough apart, the reactor will come to a steady state temperature eventually, and that can be predicted and designed around.
Just to clear up some misconceptions, the idea of pebble-bed reactors has been around since the 50's, however, due to the political environment other designs were promoted and used, as they do have higher energy potentials than pebblebed reactors do. Basically, for a nuclear reactor to "melt down", you have to have a configuration where enough nuclear material can be close enough together for the material to stay critical and generate enough heat where it will start to melt. The core idea of a pebble-bed reactor is that you encapsulate each piece of the fusion material with a protective coating that insures that even if it was let loose to react in an uncontrolled manner, the protective coating would keep the material from melting into a larger mass, which would then generate more heat even faster, etc. If you can keep the material from melting together, you can't have a complete meltdown. Materials technology has come far enough so that these protective pellets can be made safe enough that the pebblebed reactor can be created. Does this prevent people from breaking open the pebbles and inducing a failure? No. Does it prevent a bomb from exploding the reactor and releasing the material? No. Are there other ways to gain fusion material beyond attacking a commercial nuclear reactor? Yes. This is a risk vs. reward equation, we will need to get power someway, and simply dismissing nuclear as "too dangerous" is ignoring the fact that when we run out of oil, the world will be a much more dangerous place anyway as everybody fights for the limited resources. Why not AVOID the political mindset that in all likely lead to the US invading Iraq in the first place by using nuclear power?
Published quite a while ago, but I remember it as being very good, "The Two Faces of Tomorrow", originally published in 1979, and based on what I remember, it still applies to what could happen in the future. Very interesting read. http://www.jamesphogan.com/books/twoface/baen97/ti tlepage.shtml
I'm sure you can turn one into a large popcorn maker and deliver the popcorn just like cement using those slides. Fill it with the corn, and put a heater in, as it pops the corn floats to the top of the kernels, and out the scoop, so it would make a very nice delivery vehicle if you could get it working.
I checked up on it before posting too, and I have no idea how Raynaud's would impact a touchpad to be honest. Now, having a strong Kirlian aura could possibly play some funky tricks is my guess, just to pop off another word most people don't know.:)
I have an IBM with the nub, and a touchpad. I never use the touchpad, and it only causes me problems as I hit it accidentally. I don't have any problems with it registering without touching however, that one seems pretty unique. I may be able to disable it... (now to check the settings).
The point of the idea is you would HAVE to register. The burden is on the owner to CLAIM ownership of anything they consider valuable enough to take the time to claim. If it's not worth claiming, let it fall into the public domain so someone else can take care of providing it at a reasonable charge to others. I would even go so far as to require that for each copywritten work, if the owner can't be notified by the provided means in a reasonable amount of time, or they don't have a means to provide a copy of the work for a reasonable cost, then a notice of copyright violation could be filed, and the work falls into the public domain.
The point to copyright is NOT just to protect the owners, but to insure that material is available to the public. If the owners fails to allow this, then it SHOULD be in the public domain.
How about for any work under copyright, they have to PUBLISH the owner of the copyright to the library of congress every 10 years, or the copyright is to be considered expired. In effect, you have to tell people who owns the copyright in order to maintain the copyright.
And do you doubt that if the US hadn't been pushed by Sputnik that the US wouldn't have pushed ahead to land on the moon? Just because someone does something that you don't approve of doesn't mean that good can't come out of it.
Mine is worse. It allows an 8 character password, BUT you can type in a 9 character password, it will accept it, and truncate it to 8 characters without telling you.
As the first post that I saw pointing out, mod this guy up (don't have mod points right now myself). This is an OLD article, about 4 years out of date. On the other hand, I have to agree. In 2001, the majority of desktop systems ran Windows and Mac. Now you have a real desktop choice: Linux. You now have a decent office package (open office). I would say that it's right on the money! Where MS decides to compete (i.e. there is money involved), the Open source movement follows to compete. That saves money all around!
I'm surprised that the WWE didn't do a spoof wrestling event after the name fiasco, where the wrestlers dressed as Pandas and Lions. That probably would have gotten them sued again though, but would have been hilarious to have seen.
I was looking for someone to mention this. I agree that for today's audience, this would be an awsome basis for a movie. That and "The Mote in God's Eye". I wonder if Niven and crew are just holding out for enough money to make these into movies, because they would be so good.
from what I gather, the "star" topology is about setting up discrete communication channels that can then communicate. This would assume that you know the destination beforehand. The new solution would allow a single communciations channel to be setup and used to route to several locations in an optimal fashion, so that it reduces overhead and management issues.
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He connected to channels with a thousand people on them. Any group of people chatting would obviously be in a smaller channel. So he selected the largest channels that guarantee no reasonable conversation would take place. Then monitor them, and amazing, you are in a channel for pirates, and you get illegal stuff. WOW, imagine that. Maybe if the name didn't have WAREZ in the name, the results would be different.
to clarify, this is about reducing latency by processing the packets as IP in space, as opposed to as bits on a communication channel. In today's solutions, you have to transmit to a base station, that routes, and would have to transmit the data AGAIN to the satellite to reach another point on the satellite network. Some math may clear up the difference:
today: Point A wants to talk to point B over a satellite network. Point A transmits a bit to sattelite, it is sent to point C (base station), routed to point B's communications channel, then transmited again to the sattelite, then to point B. Assuming 1/8 of a second for each leg, this means it takes 1/2 second for the bit to go from point A to point B. A round trip will take 1 second.
with router in space: Point A transmits bit to satellite. Satellite determines bit needs to go to point B, and routes it, and transmits directly to point B. Total time for bit to go from A to B: 1/4 of a second, or half the time. The satellite's bandwidth for IP communications is now effectively doubled as well for such communications.
You didn't catch that current technology doesn't do the routing IN space, it does it at a single point on the ground. This allows several uplinks to be used more effectively. As an example, if you make use of these vsat IP providers to connect between two remote sites, the communications would be ground->sat->ground (hub)->sat->ground, meaning the packets have to traverse twice as far as they otherwise would if routed in space.
I'll step one point further, you got a **defective** cheap cable. It was made 9m, right? It couldn't send a digitial signal 9m, right? So clarify that you had a cheap **defective** cable, vs. an expensive correct cable. The point is with digital, it works or it don't. You happened to get a cable that didn't work. It was cheap. Yay.
Let's step away from this situation and compare ethernet cables. Again, a digital ones and zero's format. Buying brand name cat5e for your 10Mb/s hub would be a waste of money, it's not going to go any faster then using a cat3, as long as it works. Yes, you CAN get marginal cables, but they are just that marginal and defective. If you pay a lot for them, you return them because they arn't performing as advertisied. S-Video cables on the other hand, can be poor and give "marginal" results if they arn't shielded, but the picure still shows up, although not as clear as a good cable. It's all bits, do the bits get there? yep? then it's all good. Do the bits get dropped? Then it's bad. Simple as that.
Now, to defend your point, you are saying there ARE no cheap 9m DVI cables. Ok, fine. Anybody selling a **CHEAP** 9m DVI cable is a snake oil salesman, because for it to send the bits across the wire that distance reliably, it has to have good connectors and be shielded. I'll go for that, but it's the same argument reversed. A digital cable has to perform AT LEAST to a basic spec, but once it does, it will work fine. Anybody selling enormously over-spec cables is the same as someone selling under-spec cables, only making more money off of it.
I would have to agree with this, AND more than that, I can provide a legal basis for a comparison. There are many public records that while public, are considered to be "effectively" private, as you have to request them, etc. It is impossible to ask for everything, you have to ask for them one at a time, etc. This is the basis for not putting all public records on the Internet. It's the same type of thing, but in reverse.
hehe... In my prefered mmorpg (eve online) they have black market items, piracy as an accepted trade, smuggling as a skill you can train up, and you can put bounties on people's heads you don't like (with the limitation that the police don't like them either). You can have your corp declare war on another corp, then anything goes even in front of the police between the two corps. They even have situations where you are given missions BY the cops to aquire illegal items for them. It's just like the real world!
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How about heat it up? If you read up on the technology it is really quite simple in concept once you understand that if you keep the fuel pieces far enough apart, the reactor will come to a steady state temperature eventually, and that can be predicted and designed around.
Just to clear up some misconceptions, the idea of pebble-bed reactors has been around since the 50's, however, due to the political environment other designs were promoted and used, as they do have higher energy potentials than pebblebed reactors do. Basically, for a nuclear reactor to "melt down", you have to have a configuration where enough nuclear material can be close enough together for the material to stay critical and generate enough heat where it will start to melt. The core idea of a pebble-bed reactor is that you encapsulate each piece of the fusion material with a protective coating that insures that even if it was let loose to react in an uncontrolled manner, the protective coating would keep the material from melting into a larger mass, which would then generate more heat even faster, etc. If you can keep the material from melting together, you can't have a complete meltdown. Materials technology has come far enough so that these protective pellets can be made safe enough that the pebblebed reactor can be created. Does this prevent people from breaking open the pebbles and inducing a failure? No. Does it prevent a bomb from exploding the reactor and releasing the material? No. Are there other ways to gain fusion material beyond attacking a commercial nuclear reactor? Yes. This is a risk vs. reward equation, we will need to get power someway, and simply dismissing nuclear as "too dangerous" is ignoring the fact that when we run out of oil, the world will be a much more dangerous place anyway as everybody fights for the limited resources. Why not AVOID the political mindset that in all likely lead to the US invading Iraq in the first place by using nuclear power?
Published quite a while ago, but I remember it as being very good, "The Two Faces of Tomorrow", originally published in 1979, and based on what I remember, it still applies to what could happen in the future. Very interesting read. http://www.jamesphogan.com/books/twoface/baen97/ti tlepage.shtml
I'm sure you can turn one into a large popcorn maker and deliver the popcorn just like cement using those slides. Fill it with the corn, and put a heater in, as it pops the corn floats to the top of the kernels, and out the scoop, so it would make a very nice delivery vehicle if you could get it working.
I checked up on it before posting too, and I have no idea how Raynaud's would impact a touchpad to be honest. Now, having a strong Kirlian aura could possibly play some funky tricks is my guess, just to pop off another word most people don't know. :)
We will know it's his when it's a solid gold toilet bowl.
I have an IBM with the nub, and a touchpad. I never use the touchpad, and it only causes me problems as I hit it accidentally. I don't have any problems with it registering without touching however, that one seems pretty unique. I may be able to disable it... (now to check the settings).
Which is why they have 4 year controlled tours (or did). I got locked into one for just this reason, down in Alabama. That sucked.
The point of the idea is you would HAVE to register. The burden is on the owner to CLAIM ownership of anything they consider valuable enough to take the time to claim. If it's not worth claiming, let it fall into the public domain so someone else can take care of providing it at a reasonable charge to others. I would even go so far as to require that for each copywritten work, if the owner can't be notified by the provided means in a reasonable amount of time, or they don't have a means to provide a copy of the work for a reasonable cost, then a notice of copyright violation could be filed, and the work falls into the public domain.
The point to copyright is NOT just to protect the owners, but to insure that material is available to the public. If the owners fails to allow this, then it SHOULD be in the public domain.
How about for any work under copyright, they have to PUBLISH the owner of the copyright to the library of congress every 10 years, or the copyright is to be considered expired. In effect, you have to tell people who owns the copyright in order to maintain the copyright.
And do you doubt that if the US hadn't been pushed by Sputnik that the US wouldn't have pushed ahead to land on the moon? Just because someone does something that you don't approve of doesn't mean that good can't come out of it.
Mine is worse. It allows an 8 character password, BUT you can type in a 9 character password, it will accept it, and truncate it to 8 characters without telling you.
Well, the faster a building burns, the faster the fire stops...
As the first post that I saw pointing out, mod this guy up (don't have mod points right now myself). This is an OLD article, about 4 years out of date. On the other hand, I have to agree. In 2001, the majority of desktop systems ran Windows and Mac. Now you have a real desktop choice: Linux. You now have a decent office package (open office). I would say that it's right on the money! Where MS decides to compete (i.e. there is money involved), the Open source movement follows to compete. That saves money all around!
I'm surprised that the WWE didn't do a spoof wrestling event after the name fiasco, where the wrestlers dressed as Pandas and Lions. That probably would have gotten them sued again though, but would have been hilarious to have seen.
I was looking for someone to mention this. I agree that for today's audience, this would be an awsome basis for a movie. That and "The Mote in God's Eye". I wonder if Niven and crew are just holding out for enough money to make these into movies, because they would be so good.
from what I gather, the "star" topology is about setting up discrete communication channels that can then communicate. This would assume that you know the destination beforehand. The new solution would allow a single communciations channel to be setup and used to route to several locations in an optimal fashion, so that it reduces overhead and management issues.
He connected to channels with a thousand people on them. Any group of people chatting would obviously be in a smaller channel. So he selected the largest channels that guarantee no reasonable conversation would take place. Then monitor them, and amazing, you are in a channel for pirates, and you get illegal stuff. WOW, imagine that. Maybe if the name didn't have WAREZ in the name, the results would be different.
LOL, I was like "a keyboard with lcd and hd, wtf". I had to click, then went "AHHHHH".
to clarify, this is about reducing latency by processing the packets as IP in space, as opposed to as bits on a communication channel. In today's solutions, you have to transmit to a base station, that routes, and would have to transmit the data AGAIN to the satellite to reach another point on the satellite network. Some math may clear up the difference:
today: Point A wants to talk to point B over a satellite network. Point A transmits a bit to sattelite, it is sent to point C (base station), routed to point B's communications channel, then transmited again to the sattelite, then to point B. Assuming 1/8 of a second for each leg, this means it takes 1/2 second for the bit to go from point A to point B. A round trip will take 1 second.
with router in space: Point A transmits bit to satellite. Satellite determines bit needs to go to point B, and routes it, and transmits directly to point B. Total time for bit to go from A to B: 1/4 of a second, or half the time. The satellite's bandwidth for IP communications is now effectively doubled as well for such communications.
Make sense?
You didn't catch that current technology doesn't do the routing IN space, it does it at a single point on the ground. This allows several uplinks to be used more effectively. As an example, if you make use of these vsat IP providers to connect between two remote sites, the communications would be ground->sat->ground (hub)->sat->ground, meaning the packets have to traverse twice as far as they otherwise would if routed in space.
I'll step one point further, you got a **defective** cheap cable. It was made 9m, right? It couldn't send a digitial signal 9m, right? So clarify that you had a cheap **defective** cable, vs. an expensive correct cable. The point is with digital, it works or it don't. You happened to get a cable that didn't work. It was cheap. Yay.
Let's step away from this situation and compare ethernet cables. Again, a digital ones and zero's format. Buying brand name cat5e for your 10Mb/s hub would be a waste of money, it's not going to go any faster then using a cat3, as long as it works. Yes, you CAN get marginal cables, but they are just that marginal and defective. If you pay a lot for them, you return them because they arn't performing as advertisied. S-Video cables on the other hand, can be poor and give "marginal" results if they arn't shielded, but the picure still shows up, although not as clear as a good cable. It's all bits, do the bits get there? yep? then it's all good. Do the bits get dropped? Then it's bad. Simple as that.
Now, to defend your point, you are saying there ARE no cheap 9m DVI cables. Ok, fine. Anybody selling a **CHEAP** 9m DVI cable is a snake oil salesman, because for it to send the bits across the wire that distance reliably, it has to have good connectors and be shielded. I'll go for that, but it's the same argument reversed. A digital cable has to perform AT LEAST to a basic spec, but once it does, it will work fine. Anybody selling enormously over-spec cables is the same as someone selling under-spec cables, only making more money off of it.
If I had mod points... LOL.
I would have to agree with this, AND more than that, I can provide a legal basis for a comparison. There are many public records that while public, are considered to be "effectively" private, as you have to request them, etc. It is impossible to ask for everything, you have to ask for them one at a time, etc. This is the basis for not putting all public records on the Internet. It's the same type of thing, but in reverse.
hehe... In my prefered mmorpg (eve online) they have black market items, piracy as an accepted trade, smuggling as a skill you can train up, and you can put bounties on people's heads you don't like (with the limitation that the police don't like them either). You can have your corp declare war on another corp, then anything goes even in front of the police between the two corps. They even have situations where you are given missions BY the cops to aquire illegal items for them. It's just like the real world!